Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition, Edition 2

John Howard Griffin

Apr 2006 · Wings Press

About this ebook

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

Ratings and reviews

Griffin really took it all the way. Yet another enlightening testimony that every home book shelf should have and every high school student should be required to read.

This wonderful book gives insight to anyone who reads it. It brings an insight that you would never be able to understand without the details articulated by the authur. The inhunane way a race of men were and still are treated, makes me understand the anger , love, and above all resiliance of these men.

It's been a long while since I read it but it synced with what black writers had written about the black American experience. The death threats and harassment the author received after his story came out was also horrendous and not unlike what happens on social media today.

About the author

John Howard Griffin was a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist, and a dynamic lecturer and teacher. Internationally respected as a human rights activist, Griffin worked with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dick Gregory during the Civil Rights era. Robert Bonazzi is the author of Griffin's biography, Man in the Mirror. As representative for the Griffin Estate, he has edited and introduced Griffin's work and written about him for numerous publications, including The New York Times. He lives in San Francisco, California.